Throwback: The Princess's Excellent Birthday Party

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast / Wondery

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.2 • 12.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today we're doing a throwback episode to one of our favorites from the early days of Stories Podcast. The Princess's Excellent Birthday Party! The princess just wants a nice quiet gathering for her birthday, but her father the king wants it to be the best party ever! Will the king finally learn his lesson when some uninvited guests show up? Tune into this adaptation of a Macedonian folktale to find out! Check out Stories RPG our new show where we play games like Starsworn with all your Max Goodname friends, and Gigacity Guardians featuring the brilliant firefly! https://link.chtbl.com/gigacity Draw us a picture of what you think any of the characters in this story look like, and then tag us in it on instagram @storiespodcast! We'd love to see your artwork and share it on our feed!! If you would like to support Stories Podcast, you can subscribe and give us a five star review on iTunes, check out our merch at storiespodcast.com/shop, follow us on Instagram @storiespodcast, or just tell your friends about us! Check out our new YouTube channel at youtube.com/storiespodcast. If you've ever wanted to read along with our stories, now you can! These read-along versions of our stories are great for early readers trying to improve their skills or even adults learning English for the first time. Check it out.

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0:00.0	Hello! Welcome to Stories Podcast. I'm your host, Amanda Weldon. Today's story is a throwback episode.
0:09.6	Tune in to hear one of our classic stories from the archive that you might have missed the first time around.
0:15.2	We have Stories Podcast merch available at Storiespodcast.com slash shop. We're also on cameo for all of your personalized video message needs,
0:24.0	and don't forget to follow us on Instagram at Stories Podcast.
0:27.6	If you send us a drawing of your favorite scene or character,
0:30.3	we'll share it on our feed.
0:32.4	Now here's a word from our sponsors.
0:36.6	Thanks. Enjoy the episode.
0:39.9	The princess's excellent birthday party.
0:44.5	Once upon a time, in a small, rocky kingdom, a princess was having a birthday party.
0:52.6	The king, who loved parties only a little less than his daughter,
0:56.9	wanted it to be the biggest, best, most excellent birthday party ever. And so he invited everyone.
1:07.2	All their friends got invitations, and of course, all of their family. So too did all of their
1:13.6	acquaintances and all of the workers about the castle. But even after they had all been invited,
1:19.8	the king felt he needed even more guests. He was on a role and having the time of his life.
1:28.5	Um, I think that's probably enough, Dad, the princess said.
1:32.8	She, unlike her father, preferred smaller, quiet gatherings with poems and games.
1:39.2	I'd really rather just have like a little thing, maybe a couple friends and... Nonsense, my little girl needs the biggest party ever, he proclaimed.
1:50.1	Why should we stop at just human guests?
1:53.5	He invited all the animals about the grounds, everyone from the Duke's pet dog to the
1:59.4	knight's war horses, stomping and snorting in their stables.
2:03.8	He had royal pages run down climbing cats and slide invites into the mouse holes.
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